Did you notice that the boomers are dying, and that immigrants are coming? If you don't think this country is going to swing back toward a more moderate position, I'm pretty sure you are going to be surprised

I can't wait until we are more moderate like Mexico.

We probably aren't looking at things within the same framework. i am not a team player, and I do not analyze politics from the point of view of Democrat/liberal vs. Republican/conservative. I'm old, and I've seen all this happen before - and I tend to analyze politics in terms of demographic and history."My Generation" has been the major driving force in american politics over the course of my adult life. When the boomers got the vote, the electorate suddenly became very young, because there are so damned MANY of us. And the country, predictably, took a hard turn to the left.As we aged, the main body of the electorate moved with us, and the country gravitated to the right.I really hadn't expected things to start changing this soon - there are a whole lot of us still around, and voting. But the immigrants and minorities have grown faster than I anticipated - and it's possible that the boomers, who are increasingly out of the workforce, on fixed incomes, and at the mercy of society may be getting less "conservative". I don't know.But I do know this - how we vote is a function of who we are - and as who we are changes, how we vote will change along with it. There really isn't anything "political" (in the Dem/GOP sense) that can be done to change that.

why did you respond to me if you just wanted to go on an unrelated rant?

and thanks for leaving us a economically third world violent shiathole with no borders, grandpa. I guess getting your lawn mowed was more important

Did you notice that the boomers are dying, and that immigrants are coming? If you don't think this country is going to swing back toward a more moderate position, I'm pretty sure you are going to be surprised

There's not much difference between Communism and Lassez-Faire capitalism, in practice. The robber-baron capitalism of the late 19th century closely resembled Maoism, in practice. Work farms and company towns surrounded with armed guards instructed to shoot workers who attempted to escape, company stores and housing, a huge, impoverished working class supporting a tiny elite who had the power of life and death over them. they might as well have been in Stalin's Russia.